All 8 Uses of
fraudulent
in
War and Peace
- "But, dear me, that must be a fraud!" said Pierre, naively, who had listened attentively to the pilgrim.†
Chpt 5 *
- Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud?†
Chpt 6
- Always the same and always a fraud?†
Chpt 6
- Let others—the young—yield afresh to that fraud, but we know life, our life is finished!†
Chpt 6
- Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.†
Chpt 9
- The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft.†
Chpt 10
- "It's a fraud, lads!†
Chpt 11
- There is no step, no crime or petty fraud he commits, which in the mouths of those around him is not at once represented as a great deed.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(fraudulent) dishonesty -- usually for financial gain or ego